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![]() | A Bride ca. 1895 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Angel 1887 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Blue Jays In Winter, Study For Book Concealing Coloration In The Animal Kingdom ca. 1905-1909 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Brother And Sister (Mary And Gerald Thayer) 1889 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() This work portrays Abbott Thayer's children one year after their mother's hospitalization for "melancholia," or severe depression. Kate Thayer became physically ill while hospitalized, and Thayer wrote to a friend that her physical deterioration would not be so horrible "were her soul visible" (Anderson, Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1982). Thayer... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Cornish Headlands 1898 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Dublin Pond, New Hampshire 1894 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() This painting was a wedding present for Abbott Thayers friend the architect Stanford White. It is a view near the artists home in Dublin, New Hampshire, and Thayer himself thought the finished painting a very successful picture of the sunshine striking down on the bottom of a summer lake. Thayers many outdoor scenes of Dublin reflect his passion for... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Girl Arranging Her Hair 1918-1919 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Alma Wollerman Thayer was the wife of Abbott Thayer's son, Gerald, and mother of Thayer's grandchildren. She was one of his favorite models, and he spoke of his obsession with her sensual features. He created multiple versions of this composition, but claimed that he had never painted anything to compare with this Botticelli-like Alma head | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Half Draped Figure ca. 1885 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Male Wood Duck In A Forest Pool, Study For Book Concealing Coloration In The Animal Kingdom ca. 1905-1909 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | My Children (Mary, Gerald, And Gladys Thayer) ca. 1897 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous |
- Abbott Handerson Thayer















